devorar

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /də.voˈɾa/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /də.buˈɾa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /de.voˈɾaɾ/

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, past participle devorat)

1. to devour
2. (colloquial) to pig out, to gorge

• “devorar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “devorar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “devorar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “devorar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from English devour, French dévorer, Italian divorare, Spanish devorar, all from Latin dēvorō (“I devour”).

• IPA^(key): /de.voˈrar/

devorar (present tense devoras, past tense devoris, future tense devoros, imperative devorez, conditional devorus)

1. to devour; to eat greedily

• (to devour): manjegar

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō (“I devour”), from vorō (“I devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(ɹ)/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(ɻ)/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(χ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.vu.ˈɾaɾ/
• Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar

devorar (first-person singular present indicative devoro, past participle devorado)

1. to devour (to eat greedily)
2. (of books) to read many books in a short time (when studying for a test)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:devorar.

• (devour): consumir

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō.

• IPA^(key): /deboˈɾaɾ/, [d̪eβoˈɾaɾ]

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devoré, past participle devorado)

1. to devour

• “devorar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.